Zachary Taylor was the twelfth President of the
United States. He was a very interesting person.
He was a crook, a gambler, a drunkard, and had a
very short temper. One source claimed that seeing
Zachary Taylor sober was something few people
could claim to have done. A short time after
Taylor was born in 1784, he was given the peculiar
nickname muskrat head. The exact story behind this
nickname has since been lost. Taylor was very
sensitive when it came to his nickname. The
sighting of this rep...

Introduction This paper is in response to the
assignment for a paper and short speech concerning
a person with relevant contributions to the world
of management. Frederick Taylor is affectionately
referred to as the Father of Scientific
Management. The modern systems of manufacturing
and management would not be the examples of
efficiency that they are today, without the work
of Taylor. Frederick Taylor was instrumental in
bringing industry out of the dark ages by
beginning to revolutionize the w...

he Bean Trees Differences in Characters In "The
Bean Trees," by Barbara Kingsolver, readers are
given the chance to see how two characters that
have completely different lifestyles come together
and deal with everyday problems, family
relationships, and motherhood. Lou Ann chose a
lifestyle that would cause her to get married,
have a baby and move away right after high school.
On the other hand Taylor did everything in her
power not to end up living that lifestyle, and I
think it resulted in Tay...

Happiness Westward: An Essay About The Bean Trees
Taylor, like many Americans wanted a better life
for herself. All around her, girls were getting
pregnant and thus having to stay in Pittman
County, Kentucky to raise a family. Taylor decides
to head west until her car breaks down. This idea
was not seen through, however, because when Taylor
hit Tucson, Arizona, she decided to make it her
home. Even though she had managed to escape
getting pregnant back in Pittman, she ended up
with a small girl ...

The Bean Trees Taylor (born Marietta) grew up in
Pittman, Kentucky, a small rural town where
families "had kids just about as fast as they
could fall down the well and drown," and a boy
with a job as a gas-meter man was considered a
"high-class catch." She needs to get out to get
ahead and to avoid pregnancy. She succeeds on both
counts when she buys a '55 Volkswagen and heads
west. She leaves almost everything behind,
including her name. (Taylor is the name she adopts
when she runs out of gas i...

Brook Taylor Mathematician Biographical Sketch
4/2/01 Shannon Pringle Born: August 18, 1685;
Edmonton, Middlesex, England. Died: December 29,
1731; Somerset House, London, England. Brook
Taylor was born into a fairly wealthy family on
the fringes of nobility. His father, John Taylor,
was the son of Nathaniel Taylor - a member of
Oliver Cromwell's Assembly. His mother, Olivia
Tempest, was the daughter of Sir John Tempest.
Taylor was brought up in a household where his
father ruled as a strict di...

When looking at the now 53-year-old James Taylor
it is difficult to imagine him as a
ground-breaking rock and roll musician. The tall,
lanky, bald man with the mild demeanor has made an
indelible mark on the music industry and is
showing no signs of riding off into the sunset.
While his songs acted as a pseudo-soundtrack to
the '70's generation they are an amazing look into
his troubled past. In addition to coping with his
personal demons Taylor has become known for being
one of music's stronges...

The Bean Trees In the novel The Bean Trees by
Barbara Kingsolver, many social issues are
discussed. One social issue that is addressed is
adoption. Adopting a child is an experience that
promises to bring great joy as it changes a couple
or individual's life forever. Adoption offers a
chance at anew beginning for many children
previously cared for by orphanages and foster
homes. Families constitute the building blocks of
society. They provide children with the love and
security needed to grow i...

In the sequel, Pigs in Heaven, how does Kingsolver
s solution to the problem of where Turtle belongs
strike a balance among the needs of the child,
Turtle; the needs of the adoptive mother, Taylor;
and the needs of the tribe as represented by
Annawake Barbara Kingsolver s Pigs in Heaven is
not only well-written, but ends well also. The
struggle Taylor deals with to keep custody of
Turtle is the main theme of the novel. Taylor is
battling to keep her daughter against Annawake
Four killer, an atto...

Expository Writing - James Taylor Rock and Roll
has been a tradition in America for as long as
America has been a country. Classic rock and roll
always has been, and still is a favorite kind of
music among older Americans. When thinking of
classic rock, the name James Taylor comes to mind
as an artist whose work relates to everyday life.
Without a doubt, every song relates to some aspect
of everyday life. James Taylor said, 'I seem to
write a lot about going from darkness to light.
Like longing,...

"The Bean Trees" In The Bean Trees there are lots
of themes that add up to a well-made story. One of
the more obvious themes is that of immigration and
the Underground Railroad that Mattie helps run.
Within the book there are also several references
to child abuse. Another is that of Teen pregnancy
that is introduced early on. This however is not
all of the themes that are used, but they are some
of the more prominent and reoccurring ones in the
novel. One of the themes is teen pregnancy, it
how...

As a sequel to The Bean Trees Barbara King solvers
Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and
Turtle. The main events of the story start at the
Hoover Dam where an illegally adopted six-year-old
Cherokee kid, Turtle, saved the life of a man who
fell off from the dam. This incident brings Turtle
and her mother Taylor not only great recognition,
but also to the attention of Annawake Fourkiller,
a young Cherokee lawyer in Heaven, Oklahoma.
Fourkiller finds out that the adoption of Turtle
was ...

ONCE UPON A TIME... "ARGH! I'm going to get you,
you little brat!" screamed Taylor, a 14 year old
native of Calgary, Alberta. Taylor whizzed around
the corner to beat up her little brother Jay. "Ha!
I got you Boomer!" exclaimed Taylor. "I'm gonna
tell mom and your gonna be in trouble! he he."
replied Jay. As soon as Jay made that remark
Taylor let him free. Jay knew that saying that he
" ll tell on her would convince her to let him go
anytime, so he ran around her and pulled her long
auburn hai...

Uncertain journeys are numerous in Barbara
Kingsolver's The Bean Trees. Many characters in
the novel put their current lives aside to go off
in hopes of finding a better one. By embarking on
these journeys, the plot lines begin and end with
risk taking. Taylor's move away from Pittman and
her taking Turtle, Louann not going after her
husband, and the many risks of Estevan and
Esperanza, create conflicts which drive the plot
of The Bean Trees. While growing up Taylor knows
that she has no desire...

At the very beginning of the book, in the first
chapter, the author makes it very clear that Missy
(Taylor), did not want to get pregnant, like all
the rest of the girls in Pittman County. In fact
it was the last thing on earth that she wanted.
Funny thing about that I guess, in that the last
thing on earth that she wanted to happen to her,
happened to her. After all those years of not
having sex, and not wanting to get pregnant, and
after all the precautions she took, she ends up
with Turtle, a...

Edward Taylor was a deeply religions man who
allowed his inner struggles and ideas to flow
through his pen onto paper, inviting the rest of
the world to struggle with him. He incorporated
many Puritan ideas within his writings that gave
the reader a clue to the inner workings of his
soul and mind. In his poem, "Meditation 38",
Taylor invoked the use of a controlling metaphor
to show Christ as an advocate before God. During
the course of this poem, Taylor both refuted and
confirmed a number of Pu...

Turtle and Taylor remain in Oklahoma City while
the adoption paperwork clears, and spend time at
the library. They learn about the wisteria vines.
They do not grow from barren soil; the soil
beneath them is fertilized by rhizobia,
microscopic bugs with which the wisteria have a
symbiotic relationship. Taylor compares the
wisteria and rhizobia to the various relationships
in the novel. Taylor calls Lou Ann, who tells her
that she is now dating a man from Red Hot Mama's,
Cameron John, and she rec...

Charles Taylor, a philosopher opposed to the
"Primacy of Rights" theories, describes such
theories as those which place individual rights
above those of society. In other words, he would
disagree that the rights of man as an individual
supersede the rights of man as a member of a
society. Taylor believes that these theories are
part of a larger heading that has become known as
"Atomism," which he believes characterizes all
doctrines pertaining to and based upon the social
contract theories of th...

In the second chapter of The Bean Trees, Barbara
Kingsolver makes the one significant shift from
Taylor's perspective in order to tell the back
story of Lou Ann Ruiz. This is one of only two
chapters in which Taylor does not appear and does
not narrate; breaking from the first person
perspective is perhaps the only way for Kingsolver
to resolve the problematic dilemma of providing
the volumes of information concerning Lou Ann
Ruiz. Lou Ann certainly contributes to the pattern
of women in the nov...